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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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